Friday, March 24, 2017

i hope this doesn't go on my performance review

Happy Friday. May everyone's weekend start with a cocktail with a flower in it.

I'm always ready for the work week to end, but some weeks more than others. This week was a good one, with one small exception.

I am on the newsletter committee for my company, which basically means that my English degree is pretty much paying for itself once per quarter.

The newsletter is called The Resource. I had been communicating about my article with the woman in charge, who happens to be an executive at our company, via an email thread with the subject "March The Resource" Assignments.

Several emails in, I got a response back from her with a rather shocking subject line. I couldn't believe it when I saw it, and thought, wow, I can't believe she used AY-ESS-ESS in the subject line.

And then I scrolled down to see the last email that I sent, and realized that I WAS THE ONE WHO CHANGED THE SUBJECT LINE.

To this:

I can only blame that unfortunate typo to a new laptop and a keyboard I am still getting the hang of. After I died of embarrassment, I decided that the next step was to do what any professional woman would do.

I changed the subject line back, pretended like it never happened, and requested PTO for Monday.

14 comments:

That's too funny! I had a mortifying misspelling of a SCHOOL where I was applying in the email that I sent to the principal. Spelled it right the whole rest of the email but the opening I completely forgot a letter and yea... AGH! Have a good weekend!

Haha oh my word!! So unfortunate but so funny at the same time. Hopefully the lady has some sense of humor. I'm fully in charge of our newsletter at work so I know how a little typo can be a big issue. Enjoy your PTO on Monday! lol

LOL! Too funny! This one time in college, (everyone called this particular old lady professor "BIG Z") I saved a document to my desktop as "EssayforBIGZ" and definitely forgot to change that name before I submitted it! LOL so awkward!

lol! i've done stuff like this. in my old job back home, i worked for a fleet company and the two types of leases we had were called novated and associate. we shortened them to nov and ass. so you'd send emails with ass lease and it always made me chuckle because i am 13 apparently.